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Civics and Governments

SS:CV:1 Students will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of governments, and the fundamental ideals of government of the United States.

SS:CV:6:1.1 Apply the ideals and principles of the American system of government to historic and contemporary examples, e.g., individual rights and responsibilities, minority rights, or equality of opportunity and equal protection under the law.

SS:CV:6:1.2 Identify the core ideals and principles of American government by citing documents, e.g., the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, or the Bill of Rights.

SS:CV:6:1.3 Apply criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and fairness of rules and laws at the local, state, or federal levels.

SS:CV:6:1.4 Differentiate among the major forms of limited and unlimited governments, e.g., monarchy, oligarchy, or democracy.

SS:CV:2 Students will demonstrate an understanding of major provisions of the United States and New Hampshire Constitutions, and the organization and operation of government at all levels including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

SS:CV:6:2.1 Illustrate ways in which government in the United States is founded on the conviction that Americans are united by the principles they share, e.g., life, liberty, and property.

SS:CV:4 Students will demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and the ability to apply their knowledge of local, state, and national government through the political process and citizen involvement.

SS:CV:6:4.1 Evaluate those characteristics that promote good citizenship, e.g., individual responsibility or respect for the rights and decisions of others.

Economics

SS:EC:1 Students will learn about their role in a free market, how decisions that they make affect the economy, and how changes in the economy can affect them.

SS:EC:6:1.1 Identify the role of the individual in factor and product markets.

SS:EC:6:1.2 Explain how specialization and productivity are related.

SS:EC:6:1.3 Recognize the relationship between productivity and wages, and between wages and standard of living.

SS:EC:2 Students will learn about the pillars of a free market economy and the market mechanism.

SS:EC:6:2.1 Determine the opportunity cost of decisions, e.g., the purchase of an item or the expenditure of time.

SS:EC:4 Students will understand how financial institutions and the government work together to stabilize our economy, and how changes in them affect the individual.

SS:EC:5 Students will recognize the importance of international trade and how economies are affected by it.

SS:EC:6 Students will be able to explain the importance of money management, spending credit, saving, and investing in a free market economy.

Geography

SS:GE:1 Students will demonstrate the ability to use maps, mental maps, globes, and other graphic tools and technologies to acquire, process, report, and analyze geographic information.

SS:GE:6:1.1 Translate mental maps into appropriate graphics to display geographic information and answer geographic questions, e.g., countries through which a person would travel between Cairo and Nairobi.

SS:GE:6:1.2 Apply the spatial concepts of location, distance, direction, scale, movement, and region, e.g., the relative and absolute location of the student's community, or the diffusion of the English language to the United States.

SS:GE:2 Students will demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions as well as how culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions.

SS:GE:6:2.1 Describe the ways in which regions change, e.g., the degradation of the Aral Sea or the westward expansion of the United States.

SS:GE:6:3.3 Illustrate how physical processes produce changes in ecosystems, e.g., the process of succession after a forest fire or desertification.

SS:GE:4 Students will demonstrate an understanding of human migration; the complexity of cultural mosaics; economic interdependence; human settlement patterns; and the forces of cooperation and conflict among peoples.

SS:GE:6:4.1 Recognize the demographic structure of a population and its underlying causes, e.g., birth rate, ethnic composition, or distribution of wealth.